Part 1: Setting the scene. The electronic life of texts: insights from corpus linguistics for all fields of English / Anne Curzan ; Textual analysis: from philology to corpus linguistics / Charles F. Meyer. Part 2: Focus on present-day and recent English. Cross-linguistic perspectives / Stig Johansson; English style on the move: variation and change in stylistic norms in the twentieth century / Geoffrey Leech, Nicholas Smith and Paul Rayson. Part 3: Focus on early English. Historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics: problems and strategies / Laurel J. Brinton ; 'Upon these Heads I shall discourse': lexicographical and corpus evidence for senses and phrases / Claudia Claridge ; Prayers in the history of English: a corpus-based study / Thomas Kohnen ; Semantic drift in Shakespeare, and Early Modern English full-text corpora / Ian Lancashire ; Corpora and the study of the history of English / Matti Rissanen ; The status of onset contexts in analysis of micro-changes / Elizabeth Closs Traugott.